Assessing, controlling, and assuring the quality of medical information on the Internet: Caveant lector et viewor--Let the reader and viewer beware.
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Summary
The problem is not too little information but too much, vast chunks of it incomplete, misleading, or inaccurate, and not only in the medical arena, the Net has the potential to become the world's largest vanity press.
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- article
- Published
- 1997-04-16
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Keywords
Medicine, The Internet, Medical information, Quality (philosophy), Internet privacy
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- One Multimedia Medical World
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